December Julep Selection Time!

It's that time of month again! Time for mavens to pick their Julep box! The window opens today, the 20th, and it stays open until the 24th. As many Julep polishes I have, I'm still really, really enjoying this subscription.

December's theme is "The Glitterati Collection" and seems to be a bit more themed towards New Years than Christmas, which makes sense. Not everyone celebrates Christmas. I like that I see several sparkly colors!

Julep's December collection

This month's featured beauty product is a neutral eyeshadow palette! Unlike last month's lip gloss collection, this one has me excited!! I love eyeshadow! This retails at $24 (or $19.20 member) and includes 5 neutral shades that can be used to make a variety of looks.  Also, unlike last month, there aren't different palettes spread out through the different profiles (though I do hope they make more palettes!), so you don't have to choose polish you don't like to get a palette you do or vice versa.

Julep Sweep Eyeshadow Palette

 For the 5 box choices, as usual there are:

• Modern Beauty - this is the beauty product only box. No polish. You get the eyeshadow palette as well as their new Blank Canvas Mattifying Eye Primer (retails for $22).
  As much as I want both of these, I need polish too, so I just can't pick this box.

  

  Julep Sweep Eyeshadow Palette and Blank Canvas Eye Primer
• Boho Glam - The eyeshadow palette plus Misti, a "smoky blue-gray creme" and Joelle, a "smoky holographic glitter".
  I must have Joelle. It looks like it would be an amazing topper. I'm less sure of Misti - it's really pretty and I like their ideas of it paired with Joelle or Gianna (which you'll see in a bit), but I'm not entirely convinced it will be terribly different from their Amy or Claire (no longer on the site - is that because this is just a renamed Claire?).

  

  Julep's swatches of the Boho Glam polishes Joelle and Misti

•  Bombshell - Eyeshadow palette plus Andrea, a bronze glitter and Cara, a "cranberry frost". I can't tell if it's more red or pink. I think pink.
  These are both really lovely. I was initially worried Andrea would be too much like Oscar, but it definitely looks much warmer. And I amazingly enough don't have a color like Cara, even though I would think that would be a fairly popular color seen in even a basic collection!

  

  Julep's swatches of the Bombshell polishes Cara and Andrea

• Classic with a Twist - Eyeshadow palette plus Jillian, a "deep eggplant with bronze molten" and Mia, a greenish silver metallic.
  Jillian looks like it will be gorgeous and I definitely don't have anything like Mia. It's possibly an odd color, but I think I need to see it in person.

  

  Julep's swatches of the Classic with a Twist polishes Mia and Jillian

•  It Girl - No palette, just 3 polishes: Evelyn, a "magenta purple creme", Celia, a light green metallic, and Shoshanna, a yellow holographic glitter.
  Evelyn is pretty, though looking through my swatches I'm not sure how different it will be from Nellie (oddly, their swatches of Nellie look way lighter than mine) or maybe even Janel (no longer on the site), without the hint of shimmer. I'm hoping since their Nellie swatch is lighter than mine and looks very different to their swatch of Evelyn, they'll be plenty different. Celia is something I don't have and although I have a gold holo, I don't have a yellow one, so I'm interested to see if Shoshana's different. It almost looks like it has a greenish tint in the bottle.

  

  Julep's swatches for the It Girl polishes Celia, Evelyn, and Shoshanna

The add-ons this month are mostly populated by all the above items individually, but there's also an eyeshadow brush (I have way too many brushes, don't need it!), a polish duo that comes in a little bag, presumably for gifting, that comes with Evelyn and Christine, a bronze microshimmer. I couldn't find Christine in the store, so it looks like for now, this add-on is the only way to get it. I just wish it didn't come with one of the same polishes from the main collection! Make it 2 exclusive polishes and that's way more attractive!

Julep add-on set that includes Evelyn and Christine

Finally, their last featured add-on is Gianna, a "jagged gold glitter top coat". I don't have super great luck with this type of glitter polish - they tend to be very chunky, thick polishes, but their swatches of it are all so gorgeous and it looked so nice on top of many of the above colors, I decided to add it on anyway.

Julep's swatch of Gianna

On the upside, I only have 1 add-on this month! On the downside, I liked so many of the polishes and beauty items, I just upgraded to the full box, which comes with all the polishes (except the add-on exclusive ones, hence my adding on Gianna), the eyeshadow palette, and the eye primer for an additional $35 on top of the monthly $19.99 cost, so a total of $55 for the full collection. Well, at least I canceled a bunch of the other subs I had to give me a bit more room in the budget for holidays...I may change my mind. Probably not though. I can go without Starbucks (it's decaf lately anyway) next week to make up for it!

As usual, if you want to join Julep's subscription service, please use my link! If you use promo code, FREEBOX, you can get your first box free! You just pay shipping!

(And just a disclaimer: I was not compensated for this post in any way. All opinions are my own. I have included referral links.)